I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren’t going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.
ADAM RAPPI know that something inevitable will happen.
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Whenever I’ve been in rehearsals, it’s really fun, there’s always laughing.
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When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
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I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I’ll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.
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Sometimes when I’m directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that’s okay with me.
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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